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A project to examine single-use vaping products in Scotland has uncovered a range of concerns
Posted 22 February 2022 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Health and Safety|Scotland
UPDATES: A Scotland-wide trading standards project removed more than 88,000 disposable vaping devices from sale and seized thousands more for breaching legal capacity limits, underlining concerns about youth appeal, product compliance, health risks and environmental harm.
A comprehensive examination of disposable vaping products being sold in Scotland has found a wide range of non-compliant devices which present dangers to health, safety and the environment. The project involved most of Scotland’s local authority trading standards services and was coordinated by The Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS).
The project was influe...
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